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We're inching closer to football. We really are. I mean, we're in the middle of a pre-season

which I think is trash, but I mean, can you imagine the excitement? Jets and the bills

I can't wait. Well, just remember, Jets bills, giants, cowboys, what a great way to start.

Great way. Just remember, the New York Mets and the New York Yankees now are cautionary

tales about expectations. Well, I think that the cautionary tale for Jets fans would be

the Mets. Well, yeah, because on paper everything looks like all of a sudden it's happening.

Right. We spent a lot of money and, you know, they brought in veterans and to go with some

of their young players and they all fell apart. And I mean, Steve Kohn has said you can't

put together a winning team with free agency. Now, the Jets traded for Rodgers, but essentially

it was like he was a free agent. He said he was going to play for the packer. So, I mean,

there's a lot of danger in slapping a roster together. Now they built a lot of that defense.

They didn't slap that together. That's going to, I think that's going to hold up.

Well, yeah, then we all feel that way. That's a real, that's a real unit. But, you know,

it's interesting. We were just talking about how hollow the Yankees runs seem to be on

the surface. So you went only only three other teams went as far as you did in the playoffs.

You were in the league championship series. But you beat a Guardian's team that was just

there for the taking and then got swept by the Astros. Very similar to the Giants. But

you also did when your division. No, I get it. But you, but you, but that came off of an

historic start. But you did, you kind of limped into the playoffs. And then you got what

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